00:00Not all Americans know that California used to look different, with a massive lake right in the middle.
00:05Over the centuries it got smaller, and as a result of U.S. government mistakes, it completely disappeared.
00:11This ancient lake, known as Lake Corcoran, was formed many centuries ago by rainfall and melting glaciers that filled the Central Valley.
00:18At some point, the waters of the lake reached a critical level and broke through to the Pacific Ocean,
00:23leaving in its place a dried-up valley and Lake Tulare, which remained the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi,
00:30and the sixth largest in the entire United States.
00:33In turn, the valley turned out to be extremely fertile, and quickly became one of the most productive agricultural regions in the United States.
00:40But due to the lack of rainfall, farmers, backed by government support, began using Lake Tulare to irrigate their fields.
00:47Despite warnings of the impact, the government continued to fund projects and build dams to redirect water from the lake and its feeder rivers for agriculture,
00:55causing a dramatic drop in water levels and the lake's near-complete disappearance.
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